lol way to pick the final 6 before they are even done with these matches:

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"Final 6 USA Guatemala Mexico Canada Costa Rica Panama"

beware of honduras

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 12:57 AM. Reason : f]

6/23/2008 12:57:19 AM

^I should have known better after what I have seen twice in Euro Cup with Turkey and after watching Chili win a game in injury time. There have been some wild finishes everywhere in the world this week. btw, I saw Australia lost 1-0 at home to China. LMAO! I would love it if they would fail to get to the World Cup after ditching the OFC just so they could be in a confederation with multiple World Cup spots.

6/23/2008 1:40:36 AM

nvm

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM. Reason : nvm]

6/23/2008 6:04:14 PM

as far as i know, the top 2 in each group move onto a group of 6 who play next year like a mini league with the top 3 moving onto the world cup

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 6:17 PM. Reason : ]

6/23/2008 6:13:36 PM

The top two teams from the group advance to the finals, which consists of six teams. The top three teams from the final group advance to the World Cup and the fourth-place team will play the fifth-place team from South America for a spot in the World Cup.

6/23/2008 6:14:17 PM

^what he said

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 6:18 PM. Reason : late]

6/23/2008 6:18:05 PM

WOW! Haiti advanced 1-0 on an own goal in the second leg. They just showed the highlights and it was the perfect header off a corner kick, if he had been playing for Haiti. El Salvador also got their second goal on a PK and the final goal on a free kick. That was one hell of a choke job by Panama in the last 20 minutes.

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 7:25 PM. Reason : .]

6/23/2008 7:25:32 PM

Here is a photo of the holder my dad helped me make for my 1930 FIFA World Cup collectors medals. Both medals are the same, so it's displaying a different side on each. The one on the right is a picture of the stadium and the one on the left says "A.U. DE F, 1ER CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FOOTBALL MONTEVIDEO 1930." The holder is made out of black walnut wood and I went to Things Remembered at Cary Town Center to have that engraving done at the bottom. It's a stick on that says "1930 FIFA World Cup."

6/27/2008 11:14:08 PM

EVEN MORE KEWL THAN THE OTHER TIME YOU POSTED THIS

6/27/2008 11:32:18 PM

good win for the u23 team today at the olympics.... 1-0 over japs

8/7/2008 6:22:21 PM

u23?

Um, did Brian McBride go back in time? What exactly are the roster rules for the Olympics?

8/7/2008 9:28:08 PM

u23 except three wild cards that can be any age.

8/7/2008 9:31:37 PM

i dont follow the younger guys much, but our U23 team looks much sharper offensively than anything i have seen from the national team. Klesjan is gonna be money.

8/10/2008 9:17:29 AM

wow, totally blew the end of the game today

goal in the 93rd minute to give Holland the tie, 2-2

8/10/2008 9:37:12 AM

this is why we're usa

8/10/2008 9:41:31 AM

^^that was some nc state shit right there, play so well in the second and then totally blow your lead with seconds left

and technically it's the netherlands

8/10/2008 10:31:06 AM

And the curse of Africa begins!

2006 FIFA World Cup Ghana 2 USA 1 (USA eliminated on the last day)

2008 Olympics Nigeria 2 USA 1 (USA eliminated on the last day)

2009 FIFA Confederations Cup??????? I'm gonna scream if we have to play South Africa, or Egypt on the last day of group play.

We've done better against Europe in the Olympics and World Cup than we have against Africa.

8/13/2008 6:48:54 PM

well if we hadnt done some ncstate shit against the netherlands, then we wouldnt have been put out by losing to nigeria

8/13/2008 6:52:23 PM

that was pretty much a horrible game. we played arite, but orozko or whatever screwed us. I wasn't too happy about novak taking out altidore, holden, and szeleta when we are down by one. He played it way to conservative. Robbie Rodgers sucks ass btw and Guzan is the future

8/13/2008 6:53:45 PM

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"2009 FIFA Confederations Cup??????? I'm gonna scream if we have to play South Africa, or Egypt on the last day of group play."

For the last time, you are the only person in the world who gives a fuck about the Confederations Cup.

8/13/2008 7:08:24 PM

^I know it isn't that big of a deal, but knowing that we will have to play an African team in the group stage kind of makes you start to wonder if there is a curse on the USA since the last 2 African teams we have played in a mens tournament have sent us home. Maybe the African Gods are angry that Freddy Adu left Ghana to play for the USA????????

8/13/2008 7:45:03 PM

There's no curse.

No one cares if we lose all of our games in the CC.

For all I care, we can tell FIFA to fuck off and send a U-19 team.

8/13/2008 7:48:55 PM

^Probably not, but if we get stuck playing an African team in the next World Cup on the last day then it will really make you start to wonder.

8/13/2008 7:54:42 PM

8/13/2008 8:06:07 PM

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"^Probably not, but if we get stuck playing an African team in the next World Cup on the last day then it will really make you start to wonder."

I'm guessing you're talking about the last day of group play, because there's no way either the US or any team from Africa is making it to the last day of the knockout stage.

So, CAF sends five teams, right? And there are eight groups, right? I'd say that gives us a ~20% chance of playing an African side on the last day of group play. It's not that unlikely. Shut up about this curse bullshit.

8/13/2008 8:43:20 PM

^Yes I was refering to the last day of group play. Calm down man.

8/13/2008 8:47:49 PM

I'm pretty calm, guy.

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"I'm gonna scream if we have to play South Africa, or Egypt on the last day of group play."

8/13/2008 8:49:20 PM

^It was just sarcasm.

8/13/2008 8:56:49 PM

Maybe we can focus more on us beating ourselves than being knocked out of a major tournament by an African team...

World Cup: against Italy, we squandered what could've been 50-60 minutes of a man advantage with a stupid challenge and a red card of our own, the Ghana game - our captain gifted a goal and we gave up a penalty kick

Olympics: two of best players are suspended for the last game of group play because of silly yellow cards, we give Netherlands a dangerous free kick in the last seconds of what should have been a win, the red card freaking 4 minutes into a game where all we needed was a tie

We can talk all day about how harsh most of these calls were but there's got to a point in US soccer where we can stop this kind of bullshit and actually step up and win games. I'm not sure what the problem is, but there's no confidence -- it's like we get in a position where we want to be and then we don't know what to do once we're there. I blame it on our pussy ass USSF and their top-to-bottom attitude of "let's just keep winning Gold Cups and qualifying for the WC and we'll call it a day"

8/14/2008 10:11:34 AM

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"GOALKEEPERS: Tim Howard, Brad Guzan. DEFENDERS: Oguchi Onyewu, Carlos Bocanegra, Heath Pearce, Steve Cherundolo, Frankie Hejduk, Jay DeMerit. MIDFIELDERS: Michael Bradley, Maurice Edu, Sacha Kljestan, Pablo Mastroeni, Eddie Lewis. FORWARDS: Landon Donovan, Eddie Johnson, Brian Ching, Clint Dempsey."

17 man roster for next week's WCQ against Guatemala -- 1 will be added later

EJ has to be blowing Bradley or something, this shit is getting ridiculous

8/14/2008 5:52:58 PM

whyd they leave adu and jozy off? is it because theyre gonna be going to monaco and villarreal or is bradley just stupid and thinks that brian ching and ej are actually good. adu is better than all those mids too

8/14/2008 6:16:29 PM

.Altidore and Adu were just in the Olympics and Europe starts this Saturday again. Maybe that is why.

btw, I take back what I said. I heard it was Germany ref's in the Ghana and Nigeria games. It's the cure of Hitler. He's still pissed we beat him in WWII.

[Edited on August 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM. Reason : .]

8/14/2008 6:33:43 PM

Yeah, it's probably because Adu/Altidore are with new clubs and because they've missed all of the pre-season. They probably wouldn't have wanted to be called up anyways, especially since both probably wouldn't have seen many minutes in the Guatemala game, if any... because we all know we're going to do down there with a defensive as hell lineup and bunker down and play for a 0-0 draw.

8/14/2008 6:54:49 PM

I'm calling a 3-1 vs Guatemala.

8/15/2008 4:16:35 AM

^ I just looked through our all time win-loss records -- we haven't lost to them in any location or competition since '88 but we also haven't scored more than 1 goal in Guatemala since 1972

Get ready for 1-0, 0-0, or 1-1.

8/15/2008 9:45:53 AM

^I don't think we have every won there either.

8/15/2008 7:33:09 PM

we have, but not since 1988

here's the link

http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/usamen2.html

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 7:49 PM. Reason : .]

8/15/2008 7:49:21 PM

last time i watched guatemala, they play some dirty ass soccer. So get ready for a lot of hard fouls, dives and cheap shit. Plus, I think they hate us. Not as much as they hate mexico, but probably close

8/16/2008 1:56:56 AM

^Carlos Ruiz is CONCACAF's version of C. Ronaldo and the whole Italian national team.

8/16/2008 10:37:44 AM

set em up

tonight at 10 on espn2

off topic: anybody get to watch England today? I'm just curious to hear a casual observer's opinion of their performance

8/20/2008 7:22:04 PM

david james had some wtf moments as usually.

8/20/2008 7:26:11 PM

http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_9207808.html

fact sheet for the game if anybody is interested in killing some time before kick-off

8/20/2008 7:56:08 PM

video from WCQ in Sept 05 at Guatemala -- just a look at the atmosphere and how many fucking chances we wasted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohlAPuGEqD0


lol @ Eddie Johnson at 2:10 - "At the national level, you don't get a lot of opportunities... when you get your opportunities, you have to take advantage of them."


that video reminded me of this commercial too -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDgEosqZGCM

8/20/2008 8:48:28 PM

---------Donovan--------Ching-----------

Lewis----Bradley------Mastroeni---Dempsey

PEarce----Bocanegra--Onyewu---Cherundolo

------------------Howard-----------------

There's the lineup -- looks like DMB wasn't fit enough, Ching over EJ is nice to see... other than that, no real surprises

8/20/2008 9:36:04 PM

fuck brian ching

8/20/2008 9:43:55 PM

i would honestly rather have aaron king out there than brian ching

what a fucking dive btw by the guatemalans

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 10:43 PM. Reason : a]

8/20/2008 10:41:25 PM

When is Ruiz gonna get a card! He elbowed our player in the face and gets nothing, but our U-23 player gets a straight red for an elbow to the chest in the Olympics! WTF? Mastroeni shouldn't have a yellow card either. Ruiz is a flopper.

8/20/2008 11:05:49 PM

Dolo/Pearce don't look too good right now, I'm surprised Pearce didn't get called for the handball considering what calls Guatemala are getting in the game so far

I'm also not sure what Bradley contributes to the team other than 40 yard shots that get deflected or miss badly (has he ever scored a goal from that distance) I'd much rather see Edu out there. I also think Donovan is being wasted on the outside, you gotta switch him with Dempsey or bring on Kljestan or something

oh and for all the Boca haters (although I think it was mostly JTMoney) he is playing really good so far

other than that, pretty much what I expected -- a boring, uninspired US team and a Guatemala divefest

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM. Reason : .]

8/20/2008 11:07:10 PM

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"NEEDS MORE FRANKIE"

8/20/2008 11:11:04 PM

^If they would take up diving then maybe Guatemala could win a medal at the summer Olympics!

8/20/2008 11:11:36 PM